Learning Center

Computer Resources and Lab

Welcome to the Kent Learning Center’s computer lab. You must be a Florida Community College student with a current fee slip and photo identification (ID) and/or a membership card. You will need a 3.5" floppy disk on which to save your work. If you have trouble finding the right setting or formatting a disk, one of our computer tutors will be happy to assist you. Look for a person wearing a name badge or sitting by a "Computer Help Here" sign.

Headphones: You must provide your own headphones. The campus bookstore sells inexpensive headphones.

You may bring your own music CD-ROM, but you may not install program CD-ROM’s into the computers.

The use of the Learning Center computer lab is a privilege that can be retained by remembering the following:

• Computers are for educational purposes only and all features including printing may only be used for college related materials.
• Altering the settings of the computer is prohibited.
• Snacks and covered drinks are allowed in the computer and tutoring areas.
• Phones should be in quiet mode; and please take all calls outside the Learning Center.
• Children are not allowed in the computer lab, so please remember to arrange for child care.
• Computer use in the open computer lab is electronically monitored. Be a savvy student; do not lose your lab privileges.

Software

All of the computers have Microsoft Office XP suite of programs and access to a variety of computer tutorials in math, english, science and reading.

My Skills Tutor, Writing Tutor IV, Mastery Tests, general educational development (GED), Pre-GED and campus based tutorials.

In addition, software packages for all of the computer programming and design classes taught at Kent Campus are loaded on the back group of computers. Special software for the multimedia classes is loaded on the front group of computers. If you have any trouble accessing what you need, just ask one of the Computer Tutors. Some examples of available programs are listed below.

• Cisco 1
• Cisco 2
• Daedalus
• Diet Analysis
• GEODe
• Glencoe Keyboarding
• Interact Math Plus
• Internet Explorer
• Java 2
• Macromedia
      -Dreamweaver 4, Fireworks 4,
      -Flash 5, Freehand 9
  
• Math Pro
• Managerial Accounting
• Net2Phone
• Personal COBOL
• Principles of Anatomy and Physiology
• Scholastic study guides (SAT, ACT, & PSAT review)
• Process of Science: Discovering Biology
• TI Graph Link
• Visual Studio 6.0
• Web Publishing

Internet Resources

Online Office 2000 tutorials for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and FrontPage by Florida Gulf Coast University

Reusable source code, libraries, components to link with your programs

C++ Source Code Directory

ScriptSearch.com your Programming Directory

JavaScript Source: Free Java scripts, Tutorials, Example Code

Windows XP Fixes, Tips and Tweaks

Let us know if we have met your needs today. Please contact Billy Thomas.